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The teachers are all earnest Christian men, 

 and nearly all the students are Christians. 

 Prof. Cook writes that the spirit in the 

 college is delightful. It is, he says, entirely 

 safe to send young gentlemen or ladies 

 there. The influence is such that no one 

 can experience it without being inspired to 

 good work and pure life. Such a college 

 must be just such a leaven as California, 

 or any other society, needs. 



The President of Pomona College is not 

 only a broad-minded Christian man, but he 

 is also eminently practical. He saw that 

 California was pre-eminent for its fruit 

 and bee interests, and so he was desirous 

 to secure a practical entomologist, and a 

 person able to teach bee-keeping; so he 

 lured from Michigan (where Prof. Cook 

 had taught for 37 years) the person who 

 has perhaps done as much to aid the 

 science of entomology, especially in its 

 economic trend, as any one in the country. 



Prof. Cook is delighted with his new 

 home and work. He writes: 



This is a delightful country, with a cli- 

 mate that is unsurpassed. The fruit is 

 wonderfully varied and delicious. The 

 people are temperate, wide-awake, and 

 mostly Christians. The college is almost 

 ideal, with nearly 200 of as earnest, wide- 

 awake students as one can find anywhere. 

 The first class graduates the coming sum- 

 mer, and will number twelve. Each one of 

 them bids fair to become a power for good 

 in the State. A. J. Cook. 



We are indeed glad that Prof. Cook has 

 gone to such a grand field in which to work 

 and be useful to his fellow men. The Bee 

 Journal wishes him abundant success, and 

 many, many years full of rich and honored 

 labors for himself and all humanity. 



Bro. Will. .1. Kllidioii, who lived 

 near Catchall, S. C, died on Feb. 9, 1894, 

 at the age of 45 years. He was a prominent 

 queen-breeder, and an old-time bee-keeper. 

 The Watr/immi. and Sonthroii, a local news- 

 paper, speaks tenderly and highly of him, 

 as follows: 



William J. Ellison was a man of educa- 

 tion and intelligence, good character, and 

 highly respected. He came of a family 

 that for several preceding generations has 

 lived in the Stateburg community, esteemed 

 and respected by the people of both races. 

 He was a devout member of the Episcopal 

 Church, and leaves a widow and four chil- 

 dren, all boys, to mourn his death. He was 

 ill for a long time, but bore his sufferings 

 with Christian submission and unwavering 



faith. As an apiarist, he was, perhaps, the 

 best informed man in the State, and his 

 queens were in demand all over the coun- 

 try. He regularly every year made an ex- 

 hibition of his bees and other products at 

 the State Fair, taking many premiums. As 

 a man and citizen he will be missed in the 

 community, where his influence was always 

 for good. 



What higher tribute can be paid to the 

 memory of any man than the foregoing ? 

 No nobler monument than deserved praise 

 and loving remembrance can be given to 

 mortals. To live well means to die well. 

 Let us all try to merit the plaudit " Well 

 done," when life shall have ended. 



The Bee Journal extends sincere sympa- 

 to the bereaved family, and trusts that they 

 may also live so that a blessed re-union 

 may be assured on the " other shore." 



IJnfbi'tiiiiiite H£i]>peiiing'»«. — Last 

 fall a bee-keeper in one of the lower honey 

 counties of California shot and killed a 

 man, both being at the time under the in- 

 fluence of liquor. On Feb. 17th another 

 shooting afl'ray, in which bee-keepers 

 figured, was enacted in Orange county. As 

 we learn from the telegraphic dispatches, a 

 Mr. Louis Emerson, a young gentleman of 

 hitherto unblemished character, along with 

 his brother took up some claims to Govern- 

 ment lands in Santa Argo canyon, some 20 

 miles from Santa Ana, where the brother 

 named lives ; and when the brothers went 

 to the place, which they use as a bee-ranch, 

 they found it in possession of a half-breed 

 Mexican, who set up a claim to the property. 



The squatter was ordered off, but instead 

 of surrendering possession, he started to 

 attack Emerson's brother, and would have 

 probably killed him had not the younger 

 brother pulled his gun and shot the Mexi- 

 can dead, several shots being flred into his 

 body. The brothers drove into Santa Ana, 

 and the one who did the shooting was taken 

 in charge by the sheriff, he delivering him- 

 self into custody. 



One 4|ispatch states that the Mexican 

 took possession of the claim during the 

 brothers' absence, and upon their return 

 attacked the older brother with a club, 

 hoping to drive him off, when the younger 

 brother shot him to save his brother's life. 



Verily, the life of a bee-keeper in the wild 

 canyons of California is not always one 

 round of sweet and giddy pleasure. 



